All you say here is true, but I found that Wat Love, an African-American resident of Boydton,
Mecklenburg County, Virginia in the 1860s, maintained a bar room,
behind which were stables and a herd of hogs.  Boydton was the
county seat, but if you wanted a drink or a meal in the only bar in
town, you got it 100 feet or so away from a hog pen.

Harold

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> Scott:
> "11 head of hogs" is a LOT of hogs for a half-acre town lot.  Even if it
> was a boar, a sow and 9 piglets, that is still a lot for a town lot, if
> only because of the odor. The only other explanation I can think of is
> that the hogs were being held for sale or had just been acquired and not
> yet driven later to the farm. Gail Shea Nardi
>
> Question of the day:
> >
> > Based on the contents of this household inventory, which was registered
> > in Campbell County in 1799, do you think that the individual, who was a
> > Quaker, lived on 140 acres in the county, or 1/2 to 2 acres in town?
> >
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Harold S. Forsythe
Assistant Professor History
Director:  Black Studies
Fairfield University
Fairfield, CT 06430-5195
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